One in a Million

Challenge #296 has just gone live at Time Out Challenges and this fortnight we have the theme

Friendship/Encouragement/Support!

This challenge is generously being sponsored by Claire Brennan Design and Illustrations and Claire donated this incredible Stamp set earlier in the year as a prize for our Top Pick as chosen by the design team!   

The Top Pick will also be invited to join Time Out as a guest designer in a future challenge!  Speaking of guest designers, our guest designer this fortnight is LeAnne Pugliese of Wee Inklings our winner of Challenge #290!  Be sure to check out the Time Out Blog to see how how LeAnne and my talented team mates were inspired by our theme!

Sadly Claire has since closed her store so this is your "last chance to see" this stamp set.  Many of you will remember Claire Brennan from her Waltzing Mouse Stamps days and will be just as saddened as when WMS closed its doors!  I am lucky enough to own many of Claire's stamp sets from her WMS days and a few of her newer ones to and will treasure them always!

I needed a quick card for my gymnastic dance instructor and decided to use a butterfly as a focal element (though an elephant would perhaps have been a more accurate choice LOL)!  This stunning NBUS butterfly (Poppy Stamps Nordic Belle Butterfly) was cut from snippets of various coloured card and I swapped the layers around until I was happy!  It's such a stunning butterfly it didn't really need anything else except a sentiment and I found the perfect one in Claire's Mid Modern City Stamp Set!  Stamping on this highly textured card stock is difficult so I used my stamping platform but the quality of Claire's stamps is such that the stamping worked perfectly on the first attempt with Verafine Onyx Black Ink.  I winked everything though you'll have to take my word for that since it's hardly noticeable in the photo!  And after winking, I went over the body of the butterfly with glossy accents for stability  - now it sparkles and shines!

I am grateful for and would like to enter the following challenges

Snippets Playground Challenge #513 - see below for snippets

NBUS Challenge #77 - NBUS Butterfly;

Triple B August Challenge - Birds, Butterflies or Blooms;

Allsorts Challenge #830 - Something beginning with "B" (Butterfly);

Double D Challenge - Butterflies;

Twofer:

Since I had cut the butterfly layers from several colours, I assembled a second card (this time a portrait orientation), using this "thanks" die cut sentiment in place of a stamped sentiment.  

Again I winked everything (including the sentiment) and again I went over the body of the butterfly with glossy accents - sentiment too!

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you go away a little inspired!  Your visits and comments are always a joy and always appreciated!  And if you leave a comment, I’ll know you were here and how to find you!

Kate